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According to the experts, any day now a civil war will break out in California.

Click on over to Townhall to consider the mother of all attribution errors! Then come back here for context:

• Politifact: Fact-checking the link between climate change and ISIS
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought
• National Geographic: Climate Change Helped Spark Syrian War, Study Says
• National Observer: This is what a climate refugee looks like
• Washington Post Wonkblog: Drought helped cause Syria’s war. Will climate change bring more like it?
• National Geographic: Wars, Murders to Rise Due to Global Warming?
• National Geographic: Global Warming Making People More Aggressive?
• BBC: Sunnis and Shia: Islam’s ancient schism
• Vanity Fair: Documenting Evil – Inside Assad’s Hospitals of Horror
• Huffington Post: Assad’s War Crimes
• Common Sense: Scientists for Censorship

This weekend at Townhall, a strange matter of diversity and . . . missing the story. It makes you wonder, how often does major media (the infamous Mainstream Media) “bury the lede”?

Click  on over, then come back here for context.

• Washington Post: Black teachers flee schools, leading to concerns about diversity
• Common Sense: Another Leaf Out of Gov’t’s Playbook
• Common Sense: Money (for Us) Good, Profit (for Them) Bad
• Common Sense: Nixing Success
• Common Sense: A More Civilizing Education

Ah, the establishment fights back. But citizens aren’t giving up. At least, not in the Show-Me State. Click on over to Townhall.com. Then come back here for more reading:

• St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Activist must register as lobbyist”
• MoFirst: A Message from Ron Calzone
• Ron Calzone: Motion to Dismiss Complaint
• Missouri Ethics Commission: Proposed Joint Stipulation
• Missouri Ethics Commission: Lobbyist FAQ
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Diehl’s hiring by law firm creates conflict of interest,” letter by Ron Calzone
• Missourian (Columbia): Petition calls for legislator to resign as House Speaker-in-Waiting
• Politico: Sexting Missouri House speaker resigns
• Missouri Leadership Project
• Center for Competitive Politics
• Freedom Center of Missouri
• Citizens in Charge

Over at Townhall, I expand on Friday’s analysis of Bernie Sanders. Click on over, then back here for the linked reading:

• “A Fresh Dark Horse,” Common Sense by Paul Jacob
• “Are Democrats Socialists?” Common Sense by Paul Jacob
• Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You, by Greg Gutfeld
• Socialist Fallacies, by Yves Guyot

Ah, when insiders let their hair down! The biases become apparent. Click on over to Townhall.com, for this weekend’s Common Sense barbering. Then come back here for more reading:

• The article in question
• The original Common Sense treatment
• The event on video
• The studies
• What the New York Times admitted

The final leg of the persecution/prosecution of Dr. Annette Bosworth is coming up quickly. The state medical advisory board has spoken.

And it is of a piece with the rest of the prosecution: the state insiders are arrayed against her.

Click on over to Townhall, then come back here for more background.

• “SDBMOE Hearing Examiners Findings”: Aug. 20, 2015
• South Dakota State Medical Board Punishing Dr. Annette Bosworth for Having Opinion on Licensure Policy,” CNN iReport
• “That Evil Annette Bosworth,” Right Side Blog
• “Indiana Dem official sentenced to prison for ’08 ballot fraud in Obama-Clinton Primary,” Fox News
• “Report on the Prosecution of Dr. Annette Bosworth,” Citizens in Charge Foundation
• “An Egyptian Crackdown in South Dakota,” Paul Jacob, Townhall.com: January 11, 2015
• “Minor Infraction, Felony Prosecution,” Paul Jacob, Townhall.com: May 10, 2015
• “No Part Justice,” Paul Jacob, Townhall.com: June 2, 2015
• “Bosworth Sentenced,” Paul Jacob, Common Sense: July 8, 2015
• “First, Do No Harm,” Paul Jacob, Townhall.com: July 31, 2015

Will anyone notice the huge event that marked the Bernie Sanders’s campaign? Will it matter to those on the left, who seem most enamored of the man? Click on over to Townhall. Then come back here for a bit more background.

First, read this story in The Seattle Times: “Black Lives Matter Activists protesters shut down Bernie Sanders; later rally draws 15,000.”

When I wrote about this last week, I linked to a video . . . that has been since taken down. But you can watch more than enough on this interesting video by young African-American YouTuber:

Donald Trump’s reaction:

https://youtu.be/2UhUio29PP4

And finally, a strange moment in Secretary of State John Kerry’s public history:

This column will be archived on this site on Tuesday.

The results are in. There’s an easy way to constrain political corruption. Click on over to Townhall to find out more. Then come back here for some more reading:

• US Term Limits: “State Legislative Term Limits”
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Missouri term limits debated”

States of Corruption

Illinois

• Townhall.com: “Term Limits, Now More Than Ever,” by Paul Jacob
• Chicago Tribune: “The Madigan Rules”

Massachusetts

• WBUR Radio (NPR): “Former Speaker DiMasi, 3 Associates Indicted On Federal Corruption Charges”
• MassLive.com: “A Tale of Three Speakers”

New Jersey

• Common Sense: “Arresting New Jersey”
• NJ.com: “Massive N.J. corruption sting targets mayors, legislators, rabbis”
• NJspotlight.com: “A Rogues Gallery of the 15 Most Corrupt Politicians in NJ History”

New York

• USA Today: “Top N.Y. lawmaker arrested on corruption charges”
• Politico: “Congratulations, New York, You’re #1 in Corruption”
• New York Times: “For New York Legislators, Indictments Are No Obstacle to Seeking Re-election”
• New York Times: “The Many Faces of State Political Scandals”

Pennsylvania

• Newsworks.org: “Are term limits good ideas for Pa. elected officials?”
• PennLive editorial: “With arrest, it will take years to untangle Stephen Reed’s legacy”

New development in Wisconsin’s John Doe probes. Click on over to Townhall, then come back here for background:

• Watchdog.org: “Wisconsin’s Secret War”
• RightWisconsin: “Winners Now That the John Doe is Over”
• Wall Street Journal: “Wisconsin’s Friend at the IRS”
• Urban Milwaukee: “The Wrath of Eric O’Keefe”
• Townhall: “Who is Eric O’Keefe?” By Paul Jacob
• Townhall: “Revealed: How Partisan Prosecutors Harassed and Intimidated Wisconsin Conservatives,” by Guy Benson
• Human Events: Federal judge shuts down Wisconsin witch hunt
• Eric O’Keefe’s website